Thomas Jefferson actually said...

"I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system."

"The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination."

"We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm."

"Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be ever awake to them."